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Andrew Cheng; Elise McClay; H. Henny Yeung – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Research on the acoustic characteristics of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in North American English indicates that it is generally higher-pitched than Adult Directed Speech (ADS) and has unique prosodic characteristics, which is commonly found across many spoken languages. However, very little research has addressed another important aspect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Infants, North American English
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Kaiser, Irmtraud – Language Learning and Development, 2022
The present study analyses 3- to 6-year-old children's dialect-standard repertoires in an Austrian-Bavarian sociolinguistic setting and investigates how far individual repertoires can be explained by input and sociodemographic factors. Adults' linguistic repertoires in the area typically comprise a certain spectrum on the dialect-standard…
Descriptors: Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Miller, Karen; Jackson, Carrie N. – Language Learning and Development, 2018
While previous sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that children faithfully acquire probabilistic input constrained by sociolinguistic and linguistic factors (e.g., gender and socioeconomic status), research suggests children regularize inconsistent input-probabilistic input that is not sociolinguistically constrained (e.g., Hudson Kam &…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input